Weblogs

Ancestry.com has just launched a local blog for customers in Ireland and the UK.
The Ancestry UK blog will be publishing all the same DNA and Ancestry updates that previously were published only on the company’s global blog, while also focusing on specific news relevant to the UK and Irish communities.

Wikipedia’s definition of a blog states, “A blog (a truncation of the expression weblog) is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries (“posts”) typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first). ”

Indeed, a blog is an easy-to-use web site where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more. Blogs can be personal, written by one person, or they can be produced by the marketing departments of multi-billion dollar corporations. A blog is simply an easy-to-use process that allows anyone, including you, to “get the word out.” A blog is a great method of publishing whatever you wish to tell the world.

This newsletter is a blog although I don’t use that term very much, preferring to call it a newsletter. I use this newsletter’s web site at http://www.eogn.com to publish the articles that I write and to publish articles from a few other writers whose work I admire. If I had been restricted to publishing the old fashioned way, on paper, this newsletter would not exist; costs of printing and mailing are much too high. However, publishing on the Internet and by e-mail costs very little and sometimes is even free.

I recently had the pleasure of talking with Jessica Murray of Ancestry.com. She and I discussed a number of genealogy-related topics, including the availability of apps on your mobile and tablet devices, saving many hours by verifying research, the quality of software, and how blogging technology has revolutionized genealogy.

He has been involved in genealogy for more than 35 years. He
has worked in the computer industry for more than 40 years in hardware,
software, and managerial positions. By the early 1970s, Dick was already
using a mainframe computer to enter his family data on punch cards. He
built his first home computer in 1980.